Awning



Jan. 19 1926.-

1,570,016 .1. c. TRUEMPER AWNING Filed ay 1 24 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VEN TOR.

ATIORNEYJ Jan. 19 1926.

J. C. TRUEMPER AWNING Filed y 1. 1924 2 sheets sheet 2 *M ATTORNEYJ Patented Jan. 19, 1926.

JOHN C. TRUEMPER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

AW'NING.

Application filed May 1,

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, JOHN C. TRUEMPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Awning, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce an efficient awnin structure of such character that the awning may be thoroughly protected when not in use and may be supported in its several positions in such manner that the parts will not rattle. i

A. further object of my invention is to provide a curtain roller and roller support, particularly useful in awning structures, which may be readily mounted in position for use and which will readily accommodate commercially unavoidable variations in lengths of the rollers, and widths of window casings.

A further object of my invention is to. providea roller structure readily adjustable in length, through a sufficient range, and of such character that it will not warp.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Fig. 1 is a front view of an awning illustrating my invention, with-"the fabric extended in substantially 30 vertical position, on the right hand side of the figure and in retracted position on the left; Fig. 2 a side elevation on a larger scale; Fi 3 a transverse section on the scale of l ig'. 1; Fig. 4 a horizontal section of the roller and supporting brackets on a larger scale; Fig. 5 a fragmentary perspective of theroller supporting brackets and housing on the scale of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 a fragmentary "detail of the extending-arm and supporting bracket; Fig. 7 a fragmentary perspective, on a smaller scale, of the inner end of the extending-arm.

In the drawings 8 indicates a. metallic, tubular member forming the major portion of the length of the fabric roller and most conveniently formed of sheet metal. Ordinary down-spouting of properdiameter is satisfactory. Telescoped in each end of tube 8 is a cylindrical wood block 9 which may be projected more or less from the end of the tube, to provide proper overall length and held in place by any suitable means, such for instance as a retaining fastener 10. Secured to the projected end of one of the plugs 9 is a rope drum 11 of ordinary form.

1924. Serial No. 710,432.

For the purpose of rotatably supporting the roller, I provide casing brackets 13 and la, and roller supporting brackets 15and 16.

Bracket 13 comprises an L-shaped main body having an arm 17, by which it may be secured to a window casing, and an arm 18 lying substantially at right angles to arm 17. At its upper end bracket 13 is provided with a pair of separated parallel fingers 19-19 parallel with the plane of arm 17, and near its lower end arm 18 is provided with a pin 20 substantially the same length as, and parallel with, fingers 19. Bracket 15 comprises a main body plate having a medial central perforated boss 21 and, near its up.

per edge, perforated lugs 22*22. At its upper inner corner bracket 15 is provided with an upwardly extending finger 23 adapted to fit snugly and slide horizontally between fingers 19. At its lower inner corner bracket 15 is perforated at 24: to receive pin 20, and nearits outer upper corner is provided with a short pin 25.

Bracket 14 comprises a main body plate adapted to be secured toa window casing.

Near its upper end it. is provided with an outwardly extending horizontal lu g 26 into which is extended, through the body plate, an open-ended slot 27. Near themid'dle of bracket 14 is an outwardly extending plate like finger 28. At its lower end bracket 14 is provided with an outwardly extending horizontal L-shaped finger 29, the stem of which extends outwardly. At an inter mediate point, between fingers 28 and 29 is a. short outwardly extending finger 31 in the vertical plane of finger 28.

Bracket 16 comprises a main body plate which, at its middle, is provided with a perforated boss 32 like boss 21. At its upper inner corner bracket 16 is provided with an upwardly extending finger 33 adapted to take into slot 27. At its lower inner corner bracket 16 is provided with a downwardly extended leg 34 which, at its lower end is provided with aU-shaped horizontal foot- 35, arm 36 of which is perforated to register with a similar perforation the heel of the L-shaped plate 29 and to receive a retaining screw 37. The other arm, 38, of plate 35, is arranged to overlap the outer end of stem 30 of plate 29 in such manner as to form a rope guide 40. Bracket 16, near its upper edge, is provided with perforated lugs 42-42 like lugs 2222 of bracket 15, and at its outer upper corner is provided with a horizontally extending finger 43, like finger 25.

Secured to lugs 22-22 and 42-42 and spacing them a distance apart slightly greater than the length of roller 8-11, is an inverted trough-like housing 45 of sheet metal, the outer edge of said sheet metal being rolled into a cylinder 46 adapted to slip over pins 25 and 43. The roller is rotatably mounted in and between the brackets 15 and 16 by lag screws 5050 passed through the perforated bases 21 and 31 and into the adjacent wooden plugs 9. Housing 4546 may be ordinary commercial guttermg.

The parts thus far described are assembled as follows:

Brackets 15 and 16 are connected together by the housing site-t6 at a distance apart to accomn'iodate the roller 811, and the roller is mounted in place by lag screws 50. The brackets 13 and 14: are secured to the window casing and then b 'acket 15 is associated with bracket 13 by slipping perforation 2 1 over pin 20 and finger 23 between fingers 19, the right hand end of the roller supporting housing being held slight- 1y outwardly and downwardly. \Vhen bracket 15 has been projected sufficiently to the left (Fig. 5), relative to bracket 13, so as to bring finger 33 of bracket 16 into the plane of slot 27, said finger 33 is projected upwardly into said slot and foot 35 allowed to rest upon plate 29, the body plate of bracket 16 at that time lying against fingers 2S and 31, thus holding the parts in place. Retaining screw 37 is then passed through arm 36 and plate 29 so as to retain the parts in place.

With the above described construction it will be apparent that, so long as brackets 13 and 14 are spaced far enough apart, the housing and roller may be placed in position although the overall length of that structure may be somewhat less than the distance between the inner surfaces of arm 18 and fingers 28 and 31, thus providing for a. variation in widths of window casing, which quit often occurs in buildings, although the lengths of the roller housing may be uniform, and providing for those variations in lengths of roller housings which are practically unavoidable.

Secured to the roller 8-]1, in any usual manner is the upper end of the usual awning fabric 55, the lower end being attached to the central portion of the usual U-shaped extending arm 56. Each of the ends of the extending arm 56 is provided with a fitting 57 comprising a cylindrical lug 58 which is flattened, at diametrically opposite sides. as shown at 59-59, and also comprising a semi-annular head 60 adapted to receive arm 56 and secured in place by a bolt 61 provided with a retaining nut 62 at its outer end and an intermediate washer 63.

The parts 57-433 cooperate with the bracket 6- secured to the window casing and provided with a slot 65 formed to receive the flattened lug 5S and at its lower end expanded into a circular pocket 6 within which lug 58 may rotate.

The operation is as follows. \Vhen extending arm 56 is extended at substantially right angles to the building wall, lug 58 lies within, and is rotatable within the circular opening (it; of bracket 64, fitting this portion snugly so as to prevent rattle. When the arm 56 is drawn upwardly as far as possible lug 58 will be drawn upwardly into slot (55 and thus held against turning and against rattle. Similarly, when arm 56 allowed to swing downwardly by a full extension of fabric 55, the arm may then be drawn bodily upwardly so that lugs 58 will be drawn up into slot (35, to lock arm 56 against outward swing and against rattle. In this position, as shown at the left of Fig. l, the fabric is lying almost vertically so as to completely cover the window opening and the parts are held against flapping under wind action by the interlocking between lugs 58 and slots (55.

As the fabric is completely rolled up on the roller, the middle portion of arm 56 will swing beneath the outer edge of the housing 45 and will then be drawn upwardly well into the housing as the lower ends of arm 56 are drawn up *ardly to draw lugs 58 into slots 65 so that the outer end of the fabric, and any ornamental valance carried thereby will be thoroughly protected from the weather, while at the same time, all flapping and rattling of arm 56 will be re vented by the action of brackets 64 on ugs 58.

I claim as my invention:

1.. In an awning an extending arm, a supporting bracket for said arm, said bracket and arm having interengaging elements permitting rotation of the arm at one position on the bracket and providing a sliding, nonrotating relation at another position said bracket having means for limiting the sliding movement of the arm in both directions.

2. In an awning an extending arm, a supporting bracket provided with a substantially vertical slot having a circular end, and a fitting carried by the arm and mounted in said slot, said fitting being rotatable in the circular end of the slot and nonrotatably slidable in the slot, the walls of said slot limiting the sliding movement of the arm in both directions.

3. An awning support comprising a casing bracket adapted to be secured to the window casing having pair of spaced fingers and a pin extending parallel with the window casing, and a roller supporting bracket adjustabl supported from the easing bracket and liaving a portion adapted to slip over pin and a portion adapted to lie between said finger.

4. An awning support comprising two casing brackets, and two roller supporting brackets, one of said roller supporting brackets and one of said casing brackets being formed to interlock vertically and horizontally in one direction and to be relatively longitudinally slidable in the other horizontal direction; and the othjer casing bracket and roller supporting bracket being formed to interlock horizontally in both directions and to interlock vertically in one direction and to be vertically slidable in the other direction.

5. An awning support comprising a bracket 14 having a horizontal vertically slotted finger 26 and a supporting foot 29, and a cooperating roller supporting bracket comprising vertical finger 33 formed to vertically slide into the slotted finger 26 and a foot adapted to rest upon the foot of the casing bracket.

6. An awning support comprising a bracket 14 having'a bracket supporting foot, a roller supporting bracket, the two brackets having inter-engaging parts interlocking in the two horizontal directions and permitting relative vertical movement and the roller supporting bracket having a supporting foot associated with the casing bracket foot, the feet of the two brackets being formed to produce a rope guide when associated.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 23rd day of April, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and twenty four.

JOHN G. TRUEMPEB. 

